Churches with leaders designated Pope include the Roman Catholic Church, the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, the Chalcedonian Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria, and the orthodox Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (who is not always called a Pope, however).
The Copts are an ethnic and religious group native to Northeast Africa who primarily inhabit the area of modern Egypt. They are the largest Christian denomination in Egypt, Sudan, and Libya. Historically, they spoke the Coptic language, but now it is the native language of only about 300 Copts around the world.
Coptic is the linguistic descendent of the native Egyptian language spoken in Egypt for millennia. It was supplanted by Egyptian Arabic.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali, a Coptic Christian, was an Egyptian diplomat who served as the sixth Secretary-General of the United Nations, from 1992-1996.
In the first recording of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Pharaoh of Egypt was sung by Tim Rice simply to save the cost of paying another singer. And the recording went nowhere, only to be re-released after the phenomenal success of Jesus Christ Superstar.
On stage, Pharaoh is traditionally sung as an Elvis impersonator.
It is thought that there were about 170 Egyptian Pharaohs. Menes is believed to be the first pharaoh around 3100 BC, and Ptolemy XV, son of Cleopatra, is known to be the last. His reign lasted from 44-30 BC.
At Belshazzar’s feast, the moving hand writes “Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin” on the wall of the feasting chamber.
Daniel translates the phrase as meaning “You have been weighed in the balance and found wanting; your kingdom will be taken from you.”
The next day, Darius, leader of the Medes and Persians, overthrows Belshazzar.
Daniel’s Chaldean name is Belteshazzar. The name “Daniel” means “[the Jewish] God has judged.” But the Babylonians gave him a new name: “Belteshazzar.” This new name means “Bel protect him,” with Bel being the name of a Babylonian god.
Notable alumni of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, founded by Laurence Olivier in 1946, include Patrick Stewart, Jeremy Irons and Daniel Day-Lewis.
Captain James DeWolf, born in Bristol, Rhode Island in 1764, became the second richest man in America by buying slaves in Africa and bringing them to America. His family was responsible for enslaving over 11,000 Africans between 1769 and 1820. He was tried and acquitted of throwing a smallpox-infected slave overboard, when the judge ruled that was justifiable under maritime law.
The first clear reference to smallpox inoculation was made by the Chinese author Wan Quan (1499–1582) in his Douzhen xinfa (痘疹心法) published in 1549, with earliest hints of the practice in China during the 10th century. In China, powdered smallpox scabs were blown up the noses of the healthy. People would then develop a mild case of the disease and from then on were immune to it. The technique did have a 0.5–2.0% mortality rate, but that was considerably less than the 20–30% mortality rate of the disease itself.
The last known natural case of smallpox was in Somalia in 1977. Since then, the only known cases were caused by a laboratory accident in 1978 in Birmingham, England, which killed one person and caused a limited outbreak. Smallpox was officially declared eradicated in 1979.
The only remaining stocks of the smallpox virus are under control of the World Health Organization, which retains them for possible future research use. They have repeatedly punted proposals to destroy the stocks, effectively giving the disease the death penalty, to prevent any possibility of future outbreaks among the now-largely-unvaccinated world population.
Conservapedia claims: Some people are hesitant to take them due to toxins and unhealthy substances which are in vaccines. Some contain some of what seem to be the strangest ingredients, such as Monosodium Glutamate (classified as an Excitotoxin), aspartame (artificial sweetener), formaldehyde, and aborted human fetal tissue (for diploid cells, etc.) Others avoid them because some research has shown that they drastically increase the risk of autism. Although this latter claim has been countered by some conflicting research, many still consider this to be a risk. Some vaccines contain (or formerly contained) thimerosal, which contains mercury; this was one of the main reasons a link to autism was suspected. Still more individuals avoid them for religious reasons. Those who stay away from the vaccine often seem to avoid getting that disease by using natural means, like Vitamin D supplementation or the use of other natural treatments.
The origin of smallpox is unknown. The earliest evidence of the disease dates to the 3rd century BCE in Egyptian mummies. In 18th-century Europe about 400,000 people per year died from the disease, and one-third of the cases resulted in blindness. Smallpox is estimated to have killed up to 300 million people in the 20th century and around 500 million people in the last 100 years of its existence. As recently as 1967, 15 million cases occurred a year.
The enduring story that white American colonists gave smallpox-infected blankets to American Indians to eradicate them is based on a single letter in whichLord Jeffrey Amherst speculated that it would be an effective means. It was tried once, at Fort Pitt, with uncertain results since there was already an epidemic in the area.
Amherst College is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the state of Massachusetts and admitted only men from its founding in 1821 up to 1975.
The Five College Consortium comprises four liberal arts colleges and one university in the Connecticut River Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts: Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. totaling approximately 38,000 students. They are geographically close to one another and are linked by frequent bus service which operates between the campuses during the school year.The consortium was formally established in 1965, but its roots lay in cooperative efforts between the oldest four members of the consortium dating back to 1914.
The Five Colleges may soon be down to four - Hampshire College is known for its alternative curriculum, socially liberal politics, focus on portfolios rather than distribution requirements, and its reliance on narrative evaluations instead of grades and GPAs. But not for its financial health - Hampshire admitted only 15 new freshmen this year, is publicly hoping to be bought out, and is facing an accreditation audit.
Hampshire County on the southern coast of England has the city of Winchester as its county town. Its two largest cities are Southampton and Portsmouth. Singer Aqualung was born in Southampton.